25 Jul
2012
25 Jul
'12
2:09 a.m.
Hi Gary,
On Jul 25, 2012, at 1:55 AM, Gary Kopp wrote:
Vincent,
How did you guess that? <g> Yes, 64-bit Windows 7. I have a Ubuntu virtual
machine as well (I'm using a 16GB workstation, so anything is feasible). I
never finished configuring my Linux VM under VirtualBox, but I _have_ been
giving some serious thought to using it for all XWiki development. Reading
between the lines, do you feel I'd be happier under Linux? Frankly, I've
_never_ liked Windows in any form (in fact, I was sort of an evangelist for
OS/2 back in the day), but there are a few useful Windows tools I use that
may or not be happy under Wine, so I've been taking the path of least
resistance (you know, buying a new portable workstation that always comes
with Windows and Microsoft Office pre-installed :-). It wouldn't take much
to convince me to live in the Linux world.
Since you asked about Windows, and there is a message about a path element,
I'm guessing this whole mess has something to do with the presence of blanks
in Windows pathed directory names like "Program Files."
It's a problem of max path size on Windows.
What you can do is use cygwin and build from it, it should support long path names.
As Sergiu mentioned we know about this issue but we've been lazy and haven't fixed
it… Our bad…
Here's a thread about it for reference: http://markmail.org/thread/hlnqke3igkbec332
It would be good that we fix it (it's going to touch a lot of places though).
I don't have a world clock, but isn't it
awfully late in Paris? Thanks for
your continued responses!
Just back from the party!
Thanks
-Vincent
--Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of
Vincent Massol
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 5:34 PM
To: XWiki Developers
Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Errors Building xwiki-commons
Hi Gary,
Are you building on Windows by any chance?
-Vincent
On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Gary Kopp wrote:
I am unable to build xwiki-commons from the
command line. First, I had
to skip tests, and then, after I tweaked my setup to get back to Java
6 (I typically use Java 7), Maven debug output includes the text pasted
below.
> The empty "bad path element" of "" has me baffled, but I'm
ignoring
> that for the moment. Meanwhile, can anyone explain the problem with
> AetherExtensionRepository?
>
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile
> (default-compile) on project xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven:
> Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
> [ERROR] bad path element "": no such file or directory [ERROR]
> S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-comm
> ons-ex
> tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main
> \java\
> org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionReposito
> ry.jav
> a:[107,22] cannot find symbol
> [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR]
> location: class
> org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionReposito
> ry
> [ERROR]
> S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-comm
> ons-ex
> tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main
> \java\
> org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionReposito
> ry.jav
> a:[110,8] cannot find symbol
> [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR]
> location: class
> org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionReposito
> ry
> [ERROR]
> [ERROR]
> S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-comm
> ons-ex
> tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main
> \java\
> org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionReposito
> ry.jav
> a:[107,22] cannot find symbol
> [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR]
> location: class
> org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionReposito
> ry
> [ERROR]
> S:\xwiki-commons\xwiki-commons-core\xwiki-commons-extension\xwiki-comm
> ons-ex
> tension-repositories\xwiki-commons-extension-repository-maven\src\main
> \java\
> org\xwiki\extension\repository\aether\internal\AetherExtensionReposito
> ry.jav
> a:[110,8] cannot find symbol
> [ERROR] symbol : class AetherExtensionRepositoryFactory [ERROR]
> location: class
> org.xwiki.extension.repository.aether.internal.AetherExtensionReposito
> ry
>
> --Gary